Rarest things in chess.

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What are some of the rarest things in chess? I will name some:

Hikaru Nakamura spending more than 10 seconds on a move in online chess

OTB chess tournaments happening in Delaware, USA

Managing to beat Magnus Carlsen

Please list of some more rare things.

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Variations that I studied actually occurring in a game.

 

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Losing to someone with a rating under 100
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Earthquake
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Check mate in very first move 😜

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Predicting your opponents next move correctly.

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triple check

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As white, players at my level playing anything in the 2... d6 Open Sicilian besides the Bowdler Attack.

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Hexapled pawns

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I think bishop and knight vs. king (no pawns) endgame is quite rare...

Happened to me one time in I guess over 14,000 games (including lichess account)...

I actually won this endgame vs. stockfish one time but I still don't really know how to do it, it was lucky...  

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Fortresses and stalemates at gm leverl ig

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injurious_noob wrote:

Check mate in very first move 😜

dude thats not rare its impossible

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Triple check is also impossible

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Its a joke

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tripled pawns

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Thats (pretty much) already been said. https://www.chess.com/forum/view/fun-with-chess/rarest-things-in-chess?newCommentCount=1&page=1#comment-62887757

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oops

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Beat stockfish 14 wihout any bot

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DarkNightK1 wrote:

Fortresses and stalemates at gm leverl ig

they do happen in gm games sometimes

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one of the rarest things in chess is probably GM's making huge blunders